The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-03
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CHAPTER vi

hettleuI Lvto stulu uuNu Elaho nAth oesf
sion on her face, and her c~rochet.needle in
her hand.
~ havo been a non.produeing member
ofthe society long enough" she said stout.
ly. VI will not live OH an unmarketab!e
belief in my self another day. While l
am finding something to do, l will do
something. I don't know, mamma, that
there's q glrlia North America who objects
to c,ochetlng more than l do; but 1 eau
do It. What ehall I make Arst, insnma-
q Persian rug?" Or would you scollop red
flannel petticoats with blue edglng for gen.
eral homework girls at u Ahillng a yard ?
Don't ssy q word, Mother Ro.linstall! l
Can crochet, aud II you cant do what you
want to, you must do what you can, I've
learned 80 maeh.--Wha. 10 1t, Slam ?"
III you had taken that poetry job I Of.
tered you in the shoe business" said.Slam
severely, "you might have got a steady
place. | don't Gee but I ehall have to In.
vent that kerosene lamp l ppoke Of. III
70 out Into tbs barn aud sec some models
| have. Don't You bother, sis. II l get
that through-or tho Bay Pfotector-IR
support you'll"
"Wbat ID tho Boy Protector ;" asked
Lotto, laughing in her own laspite.
"Uh, its a patent | have in my mind,
to catch boys falling OF hnymows and
.hipgs," said Slam carelussly. II in
vented II the time l dislocated my nhoul
der in u red barn. / don't think / need
anything but y large supply OF rope, to
make q .uccsssiul specimen. Mother has
no faith in it, but when l get to Uncle
John's, l mean to borrow tho materials,
aud put 1t thought
Lotto csoehot9a. While she WIS await.
ipg oil illumination from heaven, % to
the next a.ep to be- taken by An unsuc-
cesaiul unilor who must support u family,
she crocbetad md crocheted. She did
mske a sose-piuk hood, which one OF the
girls she knew, gave her q dollar Tor. The
materials cost Eevrnty-hye cents. It took
her five days to make tho hood. She
made o sky.tlue hood which nobody
wanted. With burning checks, she took
it to q grocer doSn.toTn-thegrc whom
she didn't kEoW-and asked him, would
ha soll it for her? He said be- would try,
but they had 30 much Of such traps
coming IN from the country. At the end
OF three Teoke, the grocer sold tho sky
blue hood tby ptrmiaaion) to On old lady
with s pea-grcen complexion, who esid
she would give sixty-two and a half cen!a
tcz II, Gauss sho thoesht " Was becomin'
to her, by. che couldn't give no more'n
that nohow since she Loot her chickens
mud broke her front teeth.
Nevertheless Lotto crccheted. She sold
two pairs OF yellow baby.socks and one
baby-blauket thin enough to freeze any
common New England baby that trusted
10 it. She made ed2inS, aud iringes, and
trimmings and ~tssseiB, aud did not cell
them at i'll. She made hsd.slippera, and
began an aiesn. She made i%amp.nats,
ard mcd;ta,ed a tatle.cover. She Gro.
cheted trastiu!iy. 1t might be said that
ehe crochetsd nobly. Oae day. she took
recount O! e.cck end discovered that shc
had made q profit Of exactly twenty-sevcn
and 8 hall cents on the labor and expeId.
liiuse OF three Wecke. This Gid not in.
cluds tho slipper1 which the grocer had
lyet on hard, nor the edging which came
back from Jetty's in Boston, with THANKS,
nor the taFssls' which came hack withou!
any, from the trimming store on Winter
street.
ST :his isniiy is going TO be supported
ont OF my crochet needle" sssd Lotto, I'VE
shall nsYer be able to live on h%oe-cake.--
NixaT"
Ot the three feminine emp!oyments,
suppcsed ifom jmmemorisl time to be the
soir resources Of the Young lady whom
misfortune drove to SET support, but ont
remained. The PEN nnd tie needle hav.
ing beea legally Tried, the schoolma'am'E
desk, at least, remained.
:. Nov Lotto had always known that ebe
bad not one drop Of the patient ieacher'e
blood in her. She had always ssid that
che would ra'Ler he 6 blacksmith. To be
sure, a Pfoiseso,ghip Of Biology had been
in her dreams. But that was another
matter, as my one might see. 10 be a
D Professor OF Biology, one need not be ex-
ccesively familiar with Vulgar Fractions, or
decide whether 1t were necessary to let
little boya 20 to the entry for a drink OF
water while the class was coDjuga!ing the
%subjnnctiYe mood,
But must was must, and can was ian,
and while Lotto WAS making the sky-blue
hood for the pea.green l2dy, she had dill.
gently searched tho country far and near,
for q vacant school. None was to ibe
found.
There were schools acknowledgements
Schools, High Schools, Evening Schools,
Academies, institutes" Sunday Sehoola
Sewings schools and the omaiprasen,
District. All were generously supplied
with teachers. More generous, no. TO Say
yoluminous, wes tho supply OF applicant:
: Tor the filled desks. AB nearly as Lott
could estlmate there were eleven and
half ei1ls wanting q school to one schoo
that wanted q girl.
"Ken - spell straight ?" asked one com
mitteo msn in 3 neighboriDg village
whittier Lotto, Il desperate Saturday hat
gone alone, without recomrpendaliona, il
search OF !. school Iuraored to have
teacher with the wbooping cough. Brown
Ferry was the name Of the village. Brown
vas tho n&tna Of the committee man. II,
did net look like u man who could hay,
written bic, ow3 name without screwin,
mis- mouth open while he dotted his il
and crossed his ts and curled his y's-i
he had shy is or ts or y's to dot or curl.
"Gis!s air apt TO be weak in sselliu' ant
'rithlne.ic," esid MIR. Brown !e!i;ly.
"Wn kaa one,epniy for the High schoo
spelled apology with .two-no, with one p
that wcs it; she spslled 'pology with ont
4 p, and couldn't sal'clats ihe intereet on
COVER ment bond. We rejected her. The,
give the place to o distant connection o
my wiio's with Moo YORK; eddicatio1.'
II knew o boz, Ut q famous Acedem!
who was aaked Gtter whom the Stats 0
Virginia wss named-he ought 10 hev'
known, don't you think, sir Mked Lott
mildly,
'sTle State Of virginia9' said Mr.. Brow
uneasily. why, certainly, I think q DO,
had ought to- know who Virginia va
named for."
"Ho ssid," replied Lotto with yiciou
eentleness, "that 1t wes named for tn
/ Virgin Mary, who WAS at that time Queel
OF England"
swell" said Mr.. Brown, after q gray
!. pauae, II admit that was IN uncalled.fo
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